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Post by Lfire83 on Mar 31, 2010 0:40:21 GMT -5
So I come home and get out the test track to make some adjustments on some units, and aside from having power pickup problems on a brand new out of the box Proto, two of my Atlas gold series engines decide not to work. Never having dabbled with DC, I get out a 9V battery, magnet, and a spare stick of track to reset the units. Instead of resetting, the C420 goes into manual sound control, no reset, and the MP15 just sits there idling. I'm wondering if I need to get a potentiometer to slowly ramp up the volts or what...  Give me the wrench anyday, I hate electrical work. |
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Mathew
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Post by Mathew on Mar 31, 2010 0:48:35 GMT -5
If your atlas locos have the dual decoder in them, its possible that you need to replace to board. (see "Loco Problem" in the Electronics section)
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Post by Lfire83 on Mar 31, 2010 22:18:04 GMT -5
Sorry about posting in the wrong board. All are now operational. The proto was just seized up, C420 somehow got put in neutral with the F6 function, and the MP15 I reset the hard way in program mode.
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Post by markdeimling on Aug 26, 2010 17:02:02 GMT -5
I just got a GP40-2 Gold and had this same issue. I had to reset it and then it worked again. Now I am still battling trying to get it to program the long address. It will only take a short address.
Nice model though, so I just need to work out some bugs.
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Post by stewarttrains98 on Aug 28, 2010 22:30:54 GMT -5
I purchased a dual DC /DCC Atlas FM switcher. It ran fine on DC on my dads layout. Brought it home put it on my DCC and nothing. Had to reset the decoder. And that was basically out of the box unit, brand new.
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Post by markdeimling on Aug 29, 2010 1:37:37 GMT -5
I'm running a NCE with the 5 amp booster. I figured mine out, it actually said how to do it in the manual, go figure. I had to disable CV62 =0 and then program the long address. Then go back and enable CV62, which is the voice for the decoder.
If it is idling then hit F9 twice and it should come out of idle. There is 3 phases of idle on the model, plus a nuetral setting. It may be stuck in one of those. It took me a couple resets to figure this out.
Also if all else fails, use the following CV's to reset the decoders.
Cv49 to 128
CV50 to 255
CV56 to 113
This will give a reset as well.
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